Volcanic Fiano & Tuscan terracotta: I Cacciagalli Zagreo 2013

Right now, amphoras are hip. So is minimal intervention, and extended skin contact for white wines. Diane Iannaccone and Mario Basco of "I Cacciagalli" in Campania do all three, so that makes them super-on trend. Any thoughts that they might be bandwagon

(Almost) every week, I select an orange wine (a white wine made with extended skin contact) that grabbed my attention. View the whole series here.

Fashion might seem like an unlikely bedfellow for wine makers, but everything from production methods to grape varieties can be subject to changing fads. Witness producers in Graves and Pessac Leognan pulling out their white varieties in favour of Cabernet and Merlot, when the red wine boom hit in the early 1990s.

Right now, amphoras are hip. So is minimal intervention, and extended skin contact for white wines. Diane Iannaccone and Mario Basco of "I Cacciagalli" in Campania do all three, so that makes them super on-trend. Any thoughts that they might be bandwagon jumpers were banished with one taste of their "orange" Fiano, "Zagreo". It's an exceptional wine, produced by people who know exactly what they are doing.

I Cacciagalli

Perhaps this isn't surprising, as the couple combine the knowledge of an agronomist (Diane) with the passion of a c…